Eastern Mediterranean Europe
Eastern Mediterranean Europe, the eastern half of the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, consists of three countries and one disputed territory. With the most hours of sun in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean is a haven for beach-goers, party-people and cultural enthusiasts alike, and is known for its rich and tasty cuisine.Photo: FrontierNG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Turkey and Aegean Sea.
Turkey
Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a bi-continental country: an oft-repeated cliché about Turkey is that it is the bridge between Europe and Asia.
Aegean Sea
Photo: Leonard G., CC0.
The Aegean Sea is the northeastern part of the Mediterranean Sea; it lies between Greece and Turkey and is bounded on the south by Crete. Much of the area is covered in our article on the Greek Islands, and Crete has a separate article.
Eastern Mediterranean Europe
- Type: transcontinental region
- Description: region that is geographically located to the east of the Mediterranean Sea
- Also known as: “Eastern Mediterranean” and “Ανατολική Μεσόγειος”
- Categories: sea and coast
- Location: Europe
Wikidata ID
Q3301962
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Eastern Mediterranean Europe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدان شرق المتوسط”
- Arabic: “شرق البحر الأبيض المتوسط”
- Arabic: “شرق المتوسط”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Միջերկրական”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərqi Aralıq dənizi”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Mediterraneoa”
- Belarusian: “Усходняе Міжземнамор’е”
- Bulgarian: “Източно Средиземноморие”
- Catalan: “conca oriental de la mar Mediterrània”
- Catalan: “Conca oriental de la mar Mediterrània”
- Chinese: “东地中海”
- Chinese: “东地中海地区”
- Chinese: “東地中海”
- Czech: “Východní Středozemní moře”
- Dimli (individual language): “Rocvetışê Deryay Miyanêni”
- Dimli (individual language): “Rocvetışê Deryayê Miyanêni”
- Dutch: “Oost Middellandse Zee”
- Dutch: “Oostelijke Middellandse Zee”
- Dutch: “Oostelijke Middellandse Zeegebied”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Mediteraneo”
- Estonian: “Vahemere idaosa”
- French: “Bassin oriental méditerranéen”
- French: “Méditerranée orientale”
- Galician: “Mediterráneo oriental”
- German: “östlicher Mittelmeerraum”
- German: “Östlicher Mittelmeerraum”
- Greek: “Ανατολική Μεσόγειος”
- Hebrew: “מזרח הים התיכון”
- Hindi: “पूर्वी भूमध्यसागरीय”
- Ido: “Estal Mediteraneo”
- Indonesian: “Mediterania Timur”
- Italian: “mar Mediterraneo orientale”
- Italian: “Mediterraneo orientale”
- Japanese: “地中海東岸”
- Japanese: “東地中海”
- Korean: “동지중해”
- Malay: “Mediterranean Timur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Østlige Middelhav”
- Persian: “مدیترانه شرقی”
- Portuguese: “Mediterrâneo Oriental”
- Russian: “Восточное Средиземноморье”
- Slovak: “Východné Stredozemné more”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodni Mediteran”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodno Sredozemlje”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodno Sredozemsko morje”
- Spanish: “Mediterraneo Oriental”
- Spanish: “Mediterráneo oriental”
- Swedish: “Östra Medelhavsregionen”
- Tamil: “கிழக்கு நடுநிலம்”
- Turkish: “Doğu Akdeniz”
- Ukrainian: “Східне Середземномор’я”
- Urdu: “مشرقی بحیرہ روم”
- Uzbek: “Sharqiy Oʻrta yer dengizi”
- Venetian: “Mar Mediteràneo orientałe”
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